A delightful week of Kabir, Bharatanatyam and Swarna Saroja - Taalam: column by Leela Venkataraman

Choreographed by Ridhima Bagga, Utsav 2024 presented by students of Gauri Diwakar Sanskriti Foundation at the Shri Ram Centre, Delhi was a poetic delight. Sant Kabir's Dohas, Ramainis, Kaharvas and Shabads with their mystic underpinnings, make excellent material for Kathak dance given the dance's penchant for abstraction.....

It was IIC's Double Bill Concert, giving Delhi audiences a first exposure to Bharatanatyam by Ramya Suresh. The dancer epitomized, aside from the considerable talent, the advantages of a home background, wherein music and dance are a way of life.... 

As Ganesa Natyalaya, the largest institution for Bharatanatyam in the capital, observes its diamond Jubilee of just over fifty years of serving dance, amidst the poignant absence of its founder Saroja Vaidyanathan, presiding over the destiny of the institution for years. In a seamless natural handover of reins to the family members, the work of the institution has not suffered.... 

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